Aggregating the Human Development Index: A Non-compensatory Approach
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Aggregation; Condorcet; HDI; Geometric mean;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
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